Merging search engine and social media has
clearly become a common trend in industry.
For example, Google acquired YouTube and
launched Google Plus; Yahoo acquired Flickr;
and Facebook put forth efforts to develop
search services with a Facebook-external scope.
Much could be leveraged by integrating social
media platforms with multimedia search systems,
as shown in Figure . How to discover
and represent user search intention from social
media and seamlessly bridge these user intentions
with multimedia search systems is a
research issue in need of serious attention.